Hello All, Michael S. Rozeff has written a gem of a 3 part dissection of Government and why it should be rejected in it's entirety:
Part 1: "We see that where the state is involved, numerous hierarchies incur internal agency costs. Legislators delegate funds to the executive branch. The top officials there delegate to the FEMAs and HUDs. They in turn delegate to lower-level employees. There are layers and layers of agency costs. The same thing occurs in companies, but with two significant differences. Companies have incentives (a) to minimize the agency costs and (b) adopt new and efficient organizational structures. If they don't, competitors can put them out of business. In states, the entire structure of monitoring and incentives is weak because the taxpayers do not control their agents and because the state shovels the agency costs back upon the taxpayers. Periodic revelations of waste, scandals and frauds lead to no lasting reform. This shows that voting is a rather poor control device to control agency costs. The voters often do not know how big the waste is or who's responsible. They do not know what their single vote means when there are dozens of programs and millions of other voters. It is quite clear that the taxpayer/state institutional structure fails to control agency costs as well as they are controlled in free markets. In a market, lenders can withhold money. Stockholders can sell their stocks. What can taxpayers do? They can't sell their stock in the state. At best they can replace their current blue agents in Congress and the Executive with red ones. The new guys will misbehave in their own peculiar ways to be sure, but they will impose losses on society too because the institutional structure and incentives of the state remain exactly the same." http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff85.html Part 2: "In sum, the institutions for controlling agency costs have been systematically ravaged. The movement in the totalitarian direction via explicit removal of institutions and measures that control agency costs is unmistakable. The outcomes are predictable. If we look at all the changes and more, we recognize a common element: destruction of institutions whose aim was to control agency costs. We the People were supposed to control the behavior of our agents in the state via these institutions. Now our so-called agents control us." http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff86.html Part 3: "In our day and age, to rescue society from tyranny requires attention to two fronts. One is an attack on the state on basic grounds of its immorality and the large losses it imposes on society. This has to be accompanied by the proposition that free markets are both moral and essential to material and spiritual betterment. Second is an attack on the state-supporting economic, philosophical, and ethical ideologies that allow society to feel comfortable with the state's tyranny. This has to be accompanied by support of philosophies that stress rights, reason, and rationalism. In basic terms, what we need in part is a recovery of common sense, or that part of it which is the ability to understand and distinguish right from wrong. We need a higher level of commitment to support right. We need an understanding that the state as an organization is an instrument for cultivating and spreading wrong. We need an understanding that right behavior is the wellspring of human peace, prosperity and happiness. A society whose members cooperate to insure each other against rights violations or injustice stands the best chance of holding on to freedom and thus the benefits of freedom." http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff87.html Vic "There is no existing entity called "society"; there are only interacting individuals. To say that "society" should own land or any other property in common, then, must mean that a group of oligarchs -- in practice, government bureaucrats -- should own the property, and at the expense of expropriating the creator or the homesteader who had originally brought this product into existence."--Murray Rothbard, The Libertarian Manifesto [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
